Earlier this month, the Sony email hack revealed that British actor Idris Elba was being considered to star as the next James Bond.

The Associated Press

However, there were some people who couldn't understand why a black man could play the part of the fictional character.

American radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his show: "Now Sony is suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton rather than a white from Scotland. But that's not who James Bond is, and I know it's racist to probably even point this out."

He added: "We had 50 years of white Bonds because Bond is white. Bond was never black."